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Kürşad Tüzmen (b Ankara 1958) is a Minister of State of Turkey responsible for foreign trade. He has been in this position since 2002.

Contents 1 Education and career 2 Personal life 3 Sayings and quotations 4 References

[edit] Education and career

He is a graduate in management from Middle East Technical University and was formerly a high-ranking civil servant in the ministry of foreign trade, who at one time led a trade mission to Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

[edit] Personal life

He is married and has two children. He is a diver and a former champion swimmer, winning a race across the Bosphorus in 2004, in the 46-50 year-old category, and even now is occasionally photographed in swimwear.

[edit] Sayings and quotations

(In response to Jaques Chirac's comment that Turkey belongs in Europe as we are all children of Byzantium....Many Christian converts were put to service under the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans united many races for a single purpose. Europe knows whose son he is but I am the son of Ottomans ^[1]

[edit] References